Could Copyright Change Fix Old Media? David Marburger Q&A
My colleague David Weir at BNET Media recently disagreed strongly with an idea presented by brothers David Marburger, a media lawyer with Baker Hostetler, and Daniel Marburger, a professor of economics at Arkansas State University. The concept is to change copyright law to allow again the use of common law -- the basis for tort suits, as one example -- in certain areas of the news business. Specifically, they point to certain types of aggregators as businesses that drain part of the economic viability of news creation and distribution, because they can gain full financial benefit of the results without undertaking any of the costs to create the content. I spoke with David Marburger (who gave his permission to make this paper available to BNET readers) about the concept.
